Clowns Coulrophobia

There was a remake of the movie called “IT”, which was released this year. This movie is about a demon, named Pennywise, who is dressed as a clown. Pennywise feasts on children’s fear, meaning that he eats the children that are afraid. When you think of clowns, you

“Fear kills more dreams than failure ever will.” - Anonymous. In the small town of Jordan, Minnesota, a women named Krista lives there. She has emetophobia. When she was younger, in fifth grade she had gotten sick with the torturous stomach bug. At this time, she did not care that she vomited it was just an “oh well” sort of thing. A year passed and the summer of her sixth grade year began. Krista went with her friend Susan, to pick up her siblings from camp. While they were all eating lunch outside at their camp, one of Susan’s siblings began to vomit. Krista began to sweat all over, she had racing thoughts about her becoming sick, or getting puked on by one of Susan's siblings. Her thoughts were racing and she was panicking big time. When they all started walking back to the car to head home, Susan’s other sibling began to vomit. Now Krista is beyond the panic stage and onto the part where she starts to cry and cry because of how scared she is about getting sick. At that moment she realized she had a fear of throwing up. Emetophobia is a common fear which affects people’s daily life.

Taking into consideration that all people are unique, we all have different phobias. A phobia is an extreme or irrational fear of something. Many phobias are in relation to one another. For instance the phobias agoraphobia, anthropophobia, and stenophobia. These three are related by the reason of they can correspond with social situations. Agoraphobia is mainly the fear of crowds. It can also be the fear of bridges or being outside. Anthropophobia is the fear of people and society. It is also known as an extreme pathological form of shyness. The last phobia, stenophobia, is very rare. It is the fear of narrow things or places. All phobias are important to understand. Being able to understand a phobia means a person could help to possibly cure

In recent news, creepy clown sightings have been happening through the northern parts of South Carolina. With these citing, there is talking of a "clown apocalypse ". These clown sightings have triggered the phobias of some people and have made others become violent. Because of this sightings and the public reactions, Target , a discount retailer, has stated that for this Halloween, they are not going to be selling clown costumes. Joshua Thomas , Target's spokesperson , stated in a email "given the current environment, we have made the decision to remove a variety of clown mask from our assortment, both online and instore ". The irrational fear of these clowns have struck home with a lot of people. These extreme irrational fears are called

I have a major fear of clowns. It started with a terrible occurrence in my youth. Everytime I see one I have this horrible feeling that makes me sick. Of my experiences, I had one encounter that made my fear somewhat decrease. Most of my fear from them is what I didn't know or see. But I'm still not afraid of the circus.

Clowns are draped all over social media and the news. People are using clown outfits just to get a popular video up on the internet. Clowns showing up by lampposts and chasing people around city streets. They send a mind crippling fear into people when they think of being in a situation with a killer clown. Imagine walking down what could be any street when you look down an old dirt road that you have passed a million times; You see it, it is what looks to be a blood thirsty clown waiting for a victim. Ironically it is most likely a guy who wants a funny video or just trying to get a good Halloween scare. A killer clown who is actually just a regular guy in a clown mask from Target... wait Target has missed out on huge clown mask sales due

“It” in its origins, is Stephen King’s 1100 page literary masterpiece that has bred Coulrophobia within many who dared to sojourn through the novel. Nevertheless, it was the novel’s subject in focus, Pennywise the Clown, embodied in full flesh by Tim Curry that amassed a sadistic following and obsession with the arrival of the 1990 TV miniseries on ABC. Curry’s portrayal of the dancing clown quickly became a hallmark image for the horror canon, if not the face of horror movies altogether. Flash forward 27 years later, the fear of clowns has burgeoned into a commonplace phobia and horror trope. With all this to say, no clown has terrorized us in our nightmares quite like Curry’s Pennywise. Well, that was the case until Bill Skarsgård came along with a darker rendition of the fiendish entity in Andrés Muschietti remake of “It.”

Staff writer, Jennings Brown, in his article, “We All Need to Calm Down about the Clowns” claims that these clowns that are “terrorizing” or “injuring” other people are actually completely harmless. He supports his claim by first stating that back in early August in the town of Greenville, South Carolina, children claimed that there had been clowns try to lure them into the woods. These clowns come every year a few months before Halloween, they are only here to give people a scare.

For the longest time Spike a 6-year-old boy spike was scared of clowns, it started when he walked in on his mom and dad watching a scary clown movie. Ever since then the poor little boy could not get over his fear. Poor little spike could not go to the circus, birthday parties or fairs.

It not just the clown part that is scary lobsters are like bugs that liv in the ocean. Lobsters also walk really slow and creepy, and seeing them move gives me the chills. So if you put a clown and a lobster together you will get a giant six armed clown. Since the whole killer clown thing clowns just got scarier. If you saw the lobster clown during the killer

Based on Brandon Katz, “Thanks to Pennywise The Dancing Clown, children’s birthday parties have been ruined forever. While clowns have long been eyed with suspicion, King helped the circus figures create their own sub-genre of fear (one I Hate Clowns Facebook page has nearly 400,000 likes). From John Wayne Gacy and The Joker to the Poltergeist doll and the “killer clown” craze from 2016, the imagery has been synonymous with terror for decades in both pop culture and life”. Basically, Clowns are supposed to be a positive impact on children and for the society who makes people happy and joyful by taking the vicariousness in the party to another level. Comparing today, people expect clowns as horrifying personalities and more likely as “killers”, which is mainly because of the media who glamorize them and making them mysterious by explaining their special type of clothing, their creative ways to x-out their victims, their ways to not get caught gives potential and pride to the murderers or even brainwashes a normal individual attracting them towards this filthy

In the “Creeped out by clowns? This might be why,” article, by Frank T. Mcandrew the article looks deeper into as to why the clown sightings have frightened so many people, versus why they are occurring. According to his research clowns are the perfect mix to be terribly frightening (Mcandrew). With a clown being covered in makeup and an unfitting costume, humans are unable to pick up social cues from the clown.The ambiguity of the clown is what creates the fear factor among citizens.

CM Gilmore made an announced visit to the residence of Qu’Carla Gibson(BMo). Present at the home is Bmo Qu’Carla and VC Malik. CM explained the reason for the visit. Qu’Carla reported the following after she was aware of the allegations listed in the report:

Do you ever wonder what the longest word in the English language is? You might think “Surely hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the lengthiest word ever!”. Surprise! It actually has 36 letters in it (you can count) and the largest word ever has 52. Because it is so long and intimidating, it will be called “it” as much as possible. Anyway, it is the fear of long words. Which is kind of silly because it is a very large word. Because that is kind of mean, it is also called sesquipedalophobia. Although the fear of long words sounds really silly, it feels just as serious as death to hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobics (people who suffer from it). Thankfully, there are multiple ways to overcome hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.

There has been some research done on the fear of heights. Psychologists by the name of Gibson and Walk did an experiment in 1960 called “Visual Cliff”. The “Visual Cliff” experiment was an experiment to see if babies who were still crawling would cross a thick piece of glass that covered a steep drop off. They then put the mother on the other side of the drop off to call the baby over to the other side. Even with the mother calling the crawling babies to come to them, the babies still did not cross over the glass. This experiment shows that most humans if not all humans have acrophobia at least partially ingrained in our genetics. I believe this is part of our survival instincts.